🇮🇱👾 The Israeli Bot Problem
(Mini-Thread)
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🇮🇱🖥️ Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs
In June, The Times released an article revealing that the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, (a literal department of the Israeli government), set up a campaign using hundreds of Israeli bots posing as real Americans.
These bots posted pro-Israel content across various social media platforms, including X, primarily targeting Black Democratic lawmakers, urging them to continue funding Israel’s war on Gaza.
What this shows us is that the Israeli government is directly involved in botting X and creating fake profiles in order to shape a pro-Israel narrative.
This is just one instance of Israeli bots on X, but believe me, there are THOUSANDS.
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🇮🇱🤖 Soooooooo, who’s battling these bots?
That would be former Israeli Intelligence Officer Guy Tytunovich.
And how did Elon find this guy to battle bots on X?
Well, that’s because Netanyahu HIMSELF asked Elon to have a meeting with him during Elon's visit to Israel after October 7.
During said meeting, they discussed the following topics:
- Palestine/Israel
- Antisemitism
- Misinformation
- Bots on X
So yes, Israel supplies the bots, and Israel pretends to battle them.
lol
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🇮🇱🚜 I Actually Found an Israeli Bot Farm on X
When public likes were still a thing, I found an Israeli bot farm.
The bots would target pro-Palestinian content and reply with something pro-Israel.
Then the other bots in the network would instantly like the tweet, making the comment more visible.
I knew the tweets were like-botted because they would have 5 views and over 60 likes; this is impossible without bots.
And I’m not even kidding—literally, the next day, public likes became completely disabled on X, making it basically impossible to find a bot network like this again.
Probably just a coincidence in all honesty, but what are the chances, right?
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🇮🇱📝 Israeli Community Notes
Yeah, this one was weird.
What happened was that whenever someone posted a photo from the aftermath of the Nova festival, no matter what the caption was, a Community Note would appear.
It read:
“This was already debunked in November last year by basically every major news source in multiple countries.”
It would then go on to link multiple news articles.
Essentially, the Community Note was trying to disprove the claim that Israel used the Hannibal Directive, in which they used Apache helicopters, tanks, and gunfire to kill their own civilians on October 7, which is true by the way, and I’ll post a video with multiple witness testimonies saying exactly that.
But the thing is, nowhere in the tweets did they say anything about that.
Instead, the Community Note was automated to appear on every single tweet that posted that image.
Why would they go to such lengths to try and silence something, even when that something isn’t mentioned in the caption, if their narrative was absolutely valid?
It’s because their narrative wasn’t valid.
It is a FACT that the IDF fired on Israeli civilians using Apache helicopters, tanks, and gunfire on October 7; they just don’t want people to know it.
Now, this rabbit hole definitely goes deeper, but this is just a mini-thread with easily digestible information that clearly showcases that, yeah, Israel is botting X, and botting it hard.
Despite this, they’re still losing the online narrative because:
Truth > Bots
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